Pilot Survives Four Days Without Food Or Water After Crashing In A Jungle.

A pilot and father-to-be who crashed in the middle of the Brazilan rainforest miraculously survived for four days alone. Injured Maicon Esteves was found alive in the hostile environment by rescuers on Wednesday afternoon, 15 miles from the burned out wreckage.

He was suffering from exhaustion as well as first and second degree burns to his arms, neck and face.

The light agricultural aircraft used for spraying crops crashed on November 3, deep inside the jungle in the central west state of Mata Grosso.

A video shows the moment a search party, including firefighters and police officers, found the 27-year-old man lying on his back near a creek unable to move.

In the footage, the team lift him onto an improvised stretcher with a canopy of leaves shielding his body from the hot sun and trudge for several hours back through the forest to safety.

He reportedly said he used a GPS satellite navigation device to find the stream.

By Wednesday he was too weary to continue walking and decided to lie down on the banks of the river, which is where he was found.

The aviation accident was witnessed from a distance by two farmhands who saw the aircraft losing power and disappearing into the forest. It took them about an hour and a half to cut through the jungle to get to the wreckage.

When they reached the crash site, they found the yellow aircraft, a Neiva EMB-201, on fire and debris scattered across a wide area but no sign of the pilot.